Shootings keep police scrambling

STOCKTON - Gunfire kept Stockton police officers busy throughout the city during a nine-hour stretch Wednesday afternoon and evening, resulting in one person injured and three homes shot.

By The Record

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By The Record

Posted Apr. 26, 2013 at 12:01 AM

By The Record

Posted Apr. 26, 2013 at 12:01 AM

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STOCKTON - Gunfire kept Stockton police officers busy throughout the city during a nine-hour stretch Wednesday afternoon and evening, resulting in one person injured and three homes shot.

The first shooting occurred shortly after 1 p.m. in central Stockton, police said. A teenager was inside his home in the 200 block of East Cleveland Street when he noticed the passenger of a white sedan urinating on his lawn. He yelled at the man, and the driver of the vehicle brandished a handgun. As the teen stepped back from the window, he heard a gunshot and later found his home had been struck by a single bullet, officers said.

Around 6:30 p.m., a 28-year-old man was walking near Hazelton Avenue and Pilgrim Street when he heard gunshots and realized he'd been shot in the leg. Two boys about 14 or 15 years old wearing white shirts and athletic shorts were seen running north on Pilgrim Street, police reported. The victim was treated at an area hospital for a non-life-threatening wound.

At 9:15 p.m. in the 2400 block of Anne Street in southeast Stockton, a 41-year-old woman reported that a single gunshot came through her front window. At 10 p.m., police said another 41-year-old woman was at home in the 7600 block of Santa Ines Court in northwest Stockton when her home was struck by gunfire. There was no description of the shooters in either case, and police offered no indication that any of the four shootings were related.